Table 1.

Demographics of the participants

Participants level	Clinicians with limited clinical research experience	Clinicians with rich clinical research experience	Clinical research experts
Number	8	5	4
Gender
Male (N)	2	2	3
Female (N)	6	3	1
Average age (mean±SD)	27±4	35±2	44±12
Department	Otolaryngology, pharmacy, endocrinology, orthopaedics, anaesthesia, radiology, neurologist, cardiology	Nephrology, otolaryngology, thoracic surgery, haematology	Epidemiology or clinical research methodology
Experience in clinical research (projects)	Participating in clinical research work for 1–3 years	Being involved in 5–12 clinical research projects	Working in clinical research for 11–20 years
Data collection	Four semistructured in-depth interviews and one focus group interview for four clinicians	Semistructured in-depth interviews	Semistructured in-depth interviews